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Social Problems
Social Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about …
Sex, Drugs, and Death
Sex, Drugs, and Death: Addressing Youth Problems in American Society explores how youth lifestyles, identity pursuits, behaviors and activities produce a wide range of social …
Religion and Sexuality
Rapid Climate Change
The book reviews the science of climate change and explains why it is one of the most difficult problems humanity has ever tackled. Climate change is a "wicked" problem bound up …
Race and Africa
Beginning with the premise that race is a global phenomenon configured in the political context of European empire, this book presents studies of historical and contemporary race …
Policing Black Bodies in the 21st Century
In Ferguson and many other American communities, social media has raised the visibility of police actions, leading to protests and social movements addressing white police …
Oversharing: Presentations of Self in the Internet Age
People ‘overshare’ when they interact with others through the screens of computers and smartphones. Oversharing means to divulge more of their inner feelings, opinions and …
Outsourcing the Womb
Through case studies, Outsourcing the Womb, Second Edition provides a critical analysis and global tour of the international surrogacy landscape in Egypt, India, China, Japan, …
Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives
Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives shows how the current emphasis on the nuclear family – with its exclusion of the extended family – is narrow, even deleterious, and …
Myth and Reality in the U.S. Immigration Debate
"What part of illegal don’t you understand?" This oft-repeated slogan from immigration restrictionists illustrates the contentious quality of the immigration reform debate in the …
Identity Problems in the Facebook Era
How have new social media altered how individuals present themselves? What dilemmas have they introduced? In the age of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of instant communication, …